Feared mob lynching, not police: Returned JNU students

New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) We escaped and hid ourselves fearing mob lynching and not Delhi Police, the five JNU students, who returned to the campus late on Sunday, said.

The students said they would surrender themselves if police came to arrest them from the campus.

“We were laying low and did not come to public life because we feared mob lynching and not police,” Rama Naga, general secretary of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU), said.

The five students, Umar Khalid, Anant Prakash Narayan, Ashutosh Kumar, Rama Naga and Anirban Bhattacharya, had disappeared from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) campus after the February 9 event that was held to mark the anniversaries of executions of Parliament attack convict Afzal Guru and Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front co-founder Maqbool Bhat.